My Best Friend Had a Lobotomy

Sorry, but no - this is not going to be featured in "Justice Insanity". But, I was inspired by a quote I read while researching just exactly what a "lobotomy" was. Which, in case you don't know, is pretty much sending in a sharp utensil (commonly, after its first use, an ice pick through the eye - above the eye ball, but beneath the eye lid) in to reach the brain where nerves are jumbled around. Normally, the patient would be asked to sing a common song both the doctor and patient knew - when the patient stopped singing, the lobotomy was finished.
Anyways, within a quote I read I caught a meaning between the lines... Something so obvious, I don't understand why some of us are so blind to the very fact that they had nothing in that time. They never had medication to help the patients, there was no other ways and lobotomies fixed the problem. They had nothing to compare their actions to so that they could have ever even decided if the lobotomy or electroshock treatments and more were even worth it. There was a problem, it needed a fix, and nobody was working on anything else - at least not publicly.
(Found the quote, finally) :
“It’s a hard decision to make, but inevitably life is just full of decisions like that… For me it was a good thing. I think for mama it was a good thing. And I think the lobotomy he did on her was a very good thing. Certainly the electroshock therapy was. Of course now they have medicine for this, so it’s all a moot point. But they had nothing back then. That’s the thing, people who are looking at it don’t understand, they didn’t have anything else and nobody was coming up with anything.” ~ daughter of Sallie Ellen Ionesco, first patient to undergo "ice pick lobotomy".